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Maybe Tomorrowby  Mary Kay LaBrie
Set against the gentle rhythms of a Florida retirement community, a daughter learns that waiting for the right moment can mean missing it entirely.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Not a Creature Was Stirringby  Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael J Volpe
After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Circle of Lifeby  Iris Mangual
In her final moments aboard a New York subway, an elderly woman's memories weave with the lives of strangers, showing that the end of one journey is merely the beginning of anotherthe eternal circle of life.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Great Pancake Recordby  Jeffrey Massie
[Based on a short story by Owen Johnson] At a private boarding school in the year 1905, John Smeed sets out to make a name for himself.

Genre: Comedy
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby  Frazer Lee
Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a dream about a burnt down home near the Air BnB he is staying at compels him to investigate, an Atheist strives to find out what caused the fire and learns that his beliefs may be misguided.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Turn Aroundby  Doug J Robbins
A serial killer sneaks into a woman's house, and we relive a woman's day as a school teacher.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screens of the Damnedby  Anton Ballard
The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Next Voiceby  Charles Hall
Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coffin-Headby  Cecile George
When gangsters accidentally shoot a troubled teen artist, his latest portrait of a terrifying Trinidadian folklore character steps off the sketch-pad page seeking vengeance.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Winter Meetingby  Michael G Holmes
Four baseball executives brainstorm increasingly absurd ways to make Major League Baseball more exciting for a new generation, only to have the simplest solution come from the maintenance man changing a light bulb.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby  Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life to being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to face an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All for love, a grizzled thief puts his life on the line, but it's wrong place, wrong time, wrong woman.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a desperate heir forces a brilliant biotech scientist to use an experimental coma-curing drug on his wealthy father, the treatment works for only moments before triggering a fatal heart attack, igniting a deadly battle over a hidden fortune and forcing the scientist to confront the consequences of her own invention.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wars, Walls and Other Virusesby  Lucía Viñamata
Whether we cross the line or not determines our destiny.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tears of Aphroditeby  Peter J Bartels
As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cat Mouse Catby  Mark Konik
When a bored office worker Whitfield secretly hires a contract killer to hunt him down, he finally feels alive. That is until he discovers the assassin thinks the contract includes actually killing him, and a second hitwoman arrives to eliminate them both.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spider Daddyby  Wayne E. Johnson
An eleven-year-old boy, fixated on horror comics and monsters, finds that his recurring nightmares become reality with devastating results for his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and, ultimately, for him.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Officer Nick is a lone wolf and refuses to work with a partner, but warms up to his partner while everyone deals with a few rogue zombies.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa's Conundrumby  Robert Herold
When a troubled boy demands that his Christmas wish be never eating vegetables again, Santa Claus must navigate an intimidating mother and a bureaucratic liverwurst-addicted elf to deliver a magical solution with unexpected consequences in this hilarious and touching homage to classic Rankin/Bass holiday specials.

Genre: Animation
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
My Brother Just Shot Me!by  Don Nyambe
A mother's dark past returns to haunt her when the son she abandoned years ago is shot by his brother.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bright Lights, Dark Shadowsby  Barry Staff
Wanting to suss a stranger in town, a thirteen-year-out truant girl needs to realise he's planning a hit on a political party conference there.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Confessionby  Adam Rocke
Asking for forgiveness is never easy, and some sins simply cannot be forgiven.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby  John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Girls Are Differentby  Rocco Simonelli
BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby  Bill Cornelius
After surviving a near fatal car crash, two friends find that neither is what they appear to be and a mysterious corporation hopes to keep it a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Transferenceby  Frazer Lee
Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby  Doug J Robbins
Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chickentownby  Kevin Pacey
Tragic accident or premeditated murder, a teenager falls to his death and a corrupt police officer protects the accused.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trip the Light Fantasticby  Bari K. Willerford
A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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